Do you feel like this summer has brought just unending terrible ideas for how to use “AI”? You’re not alone! The time has come, yet again, for Emily and Alex to clear out the poison, purge some backlog, and take a journey through AI hell.

From surveillance of emotions...to continued hype around using 'AI' to automate the scientific process. But also, more promising, signs that people can see that the AI emperor is indeed without clothes.

Fresh AI Hell:

Synthetic data for Hollywood's test screenings

NaNoWriMo's AI fail

• But AI is built on classist exploitation
• NaNoWriMo is sponsored by an AI writing company
• NaNoWriMo's AI writing sponsor still creates bad writing

Company's AI assistant starts rickrolling customers

Programming LLMs with "fiduciary duty"

Canva increasing prices thank to "AI" features

Ad spending by AI companies

Clearview AI hit with largest GDPR fine yet, Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable

'AI detection' in schools harming neurodivergent kids

CS prof proudly stating unethical use of ChatGPT in the Atlantic

College recruiter chatbot can't "discuss politics"

"The AI-Powered Nonprofits Reimagining Education"

Teaching AI at art schools

Professors' 'AI twin' chatbots as teaching assistants

A teacherless AI classroom

Another 'AI Scientist'

LLMs still biased against African American English

AI "enhances" photo of Black people into photo of white-appearing people

Eric Schmidt says go ahead and steal data, write apps with ChatGPT

The environmental cost of Google's "AI Overviews"

A "Grand Challenge" for AI in climate and environment -- brought to you by Jeff Bezos

What I found in an AI-company's e-waste

Musk's xAI accused of worsening Memphise smog with unauthorized gas turbines at data center

Smile surveillance of workers

Rail carrier used AI for "emotion recognition" of passengers

Chatbot-generated harassment scenario reveals real harassment victim's personal information

AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity

Survey says: "AI" in a product description makes people want to purchase it less

Is tripe kosher? It depends on the religion of the cow.

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